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#suntv The Holy Quran recited at The World Cup 2022 Qatar Surah Rahman 55

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#suntv #nahjulbalagha #nahjulbalaghaenglish Referring to Future Events He will direct desires towards (the path of) guidance while people will have turned guidance towards desires and he will turn their views to the direction of the Holy Quran while the people will have turned the Holy Quran to their views. Part of the same sermon: Before this Enjoiner of Allah166, matters will deteriorate till war will rage among you with full force, showing forth its teeth, with udders full of sweet milk but with a sour tip. Beware, it will be tomorrow and the morrow will come soon with things which you do not know. The man in power, not from this crowd, will take to task all those were formerly appointed for their ill deeds and the earth will pour forth its internal treasures and fling before him easily her keys. He will show you the just way of behavior and revive the Holy Quran and Sunnah which have become lifeless (among people). 166This prediction of Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib (x) is with regard to the appearance of the Twelfth Imam, Abul-Qasim Muhammad ibn al-Hassan, al-Mahdi (x). 526 Part of the same sermon: As if I see (him), he (the Enjoiner of Evil)167 is shouting in Syria and is extending his banners to the outskirts of Kufa. He is bent towards it like the biting of the she-camel. He has covered the ground with heads. His mouth is wide open and (the trampling of) his footsteps on the ground have become heavy. His advance is broad and his attacks are severe. By Allah, he will disperse you throughout the earth till only a few of you remain, like kohl in the eye. You will continue like this till the Arabs return to their sense. You should, therefore, stick to established ways, clear signs and the early period which has the lasting virtues of the Prophethood. You should know that Satan makes his ways easy so that you may follow him on his heels.

#suntv #nahjulbalagha #nahjulbalaghaenglish Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib (x) collected the people and exhorted them1 to jihad but they observed a long silence. Then he said the following: “What is the matter with you. Have you lost your wits?! A group of them replied: “O Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib (x)! If you go forth we shall be with you, whereupon Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib (x) said the following: What has happened to you?! You may not be guided aright or shown the right path. Should I, under such circumstances, go forth?! In fact, at this time one of the brave and the valorous among you whom I select should go out. It does not suit me to leave the army, the city, the public treasury, the land revenue, the dispensation of justice among Muslims and looking after the demands of the claimants and to follow one contingent after the other moving here and there like featherless arrow moving in the quiver. I am the axis of the mill. It rotates on me while I remain in my status. As soon as I leave, the center of its rotation will be disturbed and its lower stone will also be disturbed. By Allah, this is very bad advice. By Allah! If I had not been hoping for martyrdom by my meeting with the enemy, and my meeting with them has been ordained, I will have secured my carrier and went away from you and will not have sought you so long as the north and South differed. There is no benefit in the majority of your numbers because of a lack of unity of your hearts. I have put you on the clear path whereon no one will perish except who perishes by himself. He who sticks to it will achieve Paradise and he who deviates goes to Hell.

#suntv #nahjulbalagha #nahjulbalaghaenglish Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib (x) delivered this sermon at Thi-Qar on his way to Basra. The historian al-Waqidi has mentioned it (in Kitab al-Jamal). About the Holy Prophet (h): The Prophet (h) manifested whatever he was commanded and conveyed the message of his Lord. Consequently, Allah repaired through him the cracks, joined through him the slits and created (through him) affection among kin although they bore intense enmity in (their) chests and deep-seated rancor in (their) hearts.

#suntv #nahjulbalagha #nahjulbalaghaenglish On the Eligibility for Caliphate The Prophet (h) is the trustee of Allah’s revelation, the Last of His Prophets, the giver of tidings of His mercy and the warner of His chastisement. O people! The most rightful of all persons for this matter (the caliphate) is he who is most competent among them to maintain it and he who best knows Allah’s commands in its regard. If any mischief is created by a mischief-monger, he will be called upon to repent. If he refuses, he will be fought. By my life, if the question of Imamate was not to be decided unless all the people were present, then there would be no 578 such case. But those who agreed about it imposed the decision on those who were absent, so much so that he who was present could not dissent, and the one who was absent could not choose (any one else). Be informed that I shall fight two persons: one who claims what is not his, and the other who ignores what is obligatory upon him. The Need for Wisdom in Fighting Against Muslims O servants of Allah! I admonish you to fear Allah because it is the best advice to be mutually given by persons and the best of all things before Allah. The door of war has been opened between you and the other Muslims. And this banner will be borne only by him who is a man of foresight, of endurance, and of knowing the status of rightfulness. Therefore, you should go ahead with that whereby you are ordered and desist from what you are required to refrain. Do not make haste in any matter till you have clarified it. In the case of every matter which you dislike, we have the right to change it. The Behavior of this World with those who Cling to it Be informed that this world which you have started to covet, and in which you are interested, and which sometimes enrages you and sometimes pleases you, is not your (permanent) abode, nor is it the place of your stay for which you might have been created, nor is it the one to which you have been invited. Be informed that it will not last for you, nor will you live along with it. If anything out of this world deceives you (i.e. attracts you), its own evils warn you, too. You should give up (the objects of) its deceit in favor of (the objects of) its warning and (the objects of) its attraction in favor of (the objects of) its horrors. And while being in it, advance towards that house to which you have been called and turn your hearts away from the world. None of you should cry like a bondmaid over anything which she has been deprived of. Seek the perfection of Allah’s bounty over you through endurance in obeying Allah and in safeguarding what He has asked you to safeguard, namely His Book. Be informed that the loss of anything of this world will not harm you so long as you have guarded the principles of your religion. Know also that after the loss of your religion, nothing of this world, for which you have cared, will ever benefit you. May Allah carry our hearts and yours towards what is right, and may He grant you and ourselves endurance.

#suntv #nahjulbalagha #nahjulbalaghaenglish Steadfastness versus a Transient Belief One belief is (conviction) which is firm and steadfast in the hearts. Another remains temporarily in one’s heart up to a certain period of time. If you were to acquit (yourselves) before anyone, you should wait till death approaches, for that is the time limit for being acquitted. Migration stands as its original status. Allah has no need for one who secretly accepts belief or one who openly does so. Migration (to the other world) will not apply to any one unless he recognizes the proof (of Allah) on the earth. Whoever recognizes him and acknowledges him will be a muhajir (immigrant) . Istid’af (i.e. freedom from the obligation of migration) does not apply to him whom the proof (of Allah) reaches and he hears it and his heart preserves it.187 617 The challenge of “Ask me before you miss me” and a prediction about the Umayyads Certainly, our case is difficult and complicated. No one can bear it except a believer whose heart Allah has tried with belief. Our traditions will not be preserved except by trustworthy hearts and (men of) firm understanding. O people! Ask me before you miss me because certainly I am acquainted with the passages of the sky more than the passages of the earth, and before that mischief springs upon its feet which will trample even the nose string and destroy the wits of the people.

#suntv #nahjulbalagha #nahjulbalaghaenglish About the Consultative Committee and the Battle of Jamal Praise be to Allah from Whose view one sky does not conceal another sky nor one earth another earth! Part of the same sermon: About the “Consultative Committee” After the Death of `Umar ibn al-Khattab: 576 Someone176 said to me, “O son of Abu Talib! You covet the caliphate.” I said to him, “Rather, you are, by Allah, more greedy, although more remote from it, while I am more suited as well as nearer. I have demanded it as my right, while you are intervening between me and it and you are turning my face from it.” When I knocked at his ears with arguments among the crowd of those present he was startled as if he was stunned not knowing what reply to give me about it. O Lord! I seek Your succor against the tribesmen of Quraish and those who are assisting them because they are denying me (the rights of) kinship, have lowered my high status and are united in opposing me in the matter (of the caliphate) which is my right then they said, “Be informed that the rightful thing is that you have it and also that you may leave it.”177 “They (the tribesmen of Quraish and those who are assisting them) were not only content to keep me away from my right over the 577 caliphate which they have usurped (from me), but rather claimed that it was their right whether to give it to me or prevent me from the same, and that I have no right to argue with them.”Furthermore, the intention (of Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib (x)) was as follows: “Had they not said that it was right to keep away from the caliphate, it would have been easy to endure it. This is so because this will have, at least, showed their admitting my right although they were not prepared to concede it” (Sharh Nahjul-Balagha, Vol. 9, p. 306). Part of the Same Sermon: Describing the People of Jamal They (Talhah, az-Zubayr and their supporters) came out dragging the wife of the Messenger of Allah (Aisha) just as a bondmaid is dragged for sale. They took her to Basra where those two (Talhah and az-Zubayr) put their own women in their houses while exposing the wife of the Messenger of Allah to themselves and to others in the army in which there was not a single individual who had not pledged his obedience and sworn to me allegiance quite willingly, without any compulsion. Here in Basra, they approached my Governor and coffers of the public treasury, the funds of its other inhabitants. They killed some of them in captivity as well as others in treachery. By Allah, even if they had willfully killed only one individual from among the Muslims without any fault, it will have been lawful for me to kill all of this army because they were present in it but did not disagree with it nor prevented it by tongue or hand, not to say that they killed from among the Muslims a number equal to that with which they had marched on them.

#suntv #nahjulbalagha #nahjulbalaghaenglish Advice for Observing Courtesy and Kindness and Keeping in and out of the Same The young among you should follow the elders while the elders should be kind to the young. Do not be like those rude people of the pre-Islamic (al-jahiliyyah) period who did not exert themselves in religion nor use their intellects in the matter of Allah. They1 are like the breaking of eggs in the nest of a dangerous bird because their breaking looks bad, but keeping them intact will mean the production of dangerous young ones. Part of the same sermon about the autocracy and oppression of the Umayyads and their fate They will divide after their unity and scatter away from their nucleus. Some of them will stick to the branches and bend down as the branches bend, until Allah, the Sublime, will gather them together for the Day that will be the very worst for the Umayyads just as the scattered bits of clouds assemble in the autumn. Allah will create affinity among them. Then He will make them into a strong mass like the mass of clouds. Then He will open doors for them to flow out of their starting place like the flood of the two gardens (of Saba’) from which neither high rocks 572 remained safe nor small hillocks. Its flow could be repulsed neither by strong mountains nor by high lands. Allah will scatter them in the low lands of valleys, then will He make them flow like streams throughout the earth. Through them He will arrange the taking of rights of one people by another people and make one people stay in the houses of those of other people’s. By Allah, all their status and esteem will dissolve as fat dissolves on the fire. The Cause of Tyranny O people! If you had not evaded support for the truth and had not felt weakness from crushing wrong, then he who does not match you will not have aimed at you, and he who over-powered you will not have over-powered you. But you roamed about the deserts (of disobedience) like Banu Isra’il (Children of Israel). I swear by my life that after me your tribulations will increase manifold because you will have abandoned the truth behind your backs, severed your ties with your near ones and established relations with remote ones. Be informed that if you had followed the one who was calling you (to guidance), he will have let you tread the ways of the Prophet (h), then you will have been spared the difficulties of misguidance, and you will have thrown away the crushing burden from round your necks.

#suntv #nahjulbalagha #nahjulbalaghaenglish Before His Passing Away (Last Will) 538 O people! Everyone has to meet what he wishes to avoid by running away.168 Death is the place to which life is driving. To run away from it means to catch it. How many days did I spent in searching for the secret of this matter, but Allah did not allow save its concealment. Alas! It is a treasured knowledge. As for my last will, it is that concerning Allah, do not believe in a partner for Him and concerning Muhammad (h), do not disregard his Sunnah. Keep these two pillars and burn these two lamps. Till you are not divided, no evil will come to you.169 Everyone of you has to bear his own burden. It has been kept light for the ignorant. Allah is Merciful. Faith is straight. The leader (Prophet [h]) is the holder of knowledge. Yesterday I was with you; today I have become the object of a lesson for you, and tomorrow I shall leave you. Allah may forgive me and you. If the foot remains firm in this slippery place, well and good. But if the foot slips, This is so because we are under the shade of branches, the passing of the winds and the canopy of the clouds whose layers are dispersed in the sky and whose traces disappeared170 in the earth. I was your neighbor. My body kept you company for some days and shortly you will find just an empty body of mine which will be stationary after (all its) movement and silent after speech so that my calmness, the closing of my eyes and the stillness of my limbs may provide you counsel because it is more of a counsel for those who learn a lesson (from it) than eloquent speech and a ready word. I am departing from you like one who is eager to meet (someone). Tomorrow you will look at my days, then my inner side will be disclosed to you and you will understand me after the vacation of my place and its occupation by someone else.

#suntv #nahjulbalagha #nahjulbalaghaenglish Referring to Future Events He will direct desires towards (the path of) guidance while people will have turned guidance towards desires and he will turn their views to the direction of the Holy Quran while the people will have turned the Holy Quran to their views. Part of the same sermon: Before this Enjoiner of Allah166, matters will deteriorate till war will rage among you with full force, showing forth its teeth, with udders full of sweet milk but with a sour tip. Beware, it will be tomorrow and the morrow will come soon with things which you do not know. The man in power, not from this crowd, will take to task all those were formerly appointed for their ill deeds and the earth will pour forth its internal treasures and fling before him easily her keys. He will show you the just way of behavior and revive the Holy Quran and Sunnah which have become lifeless (among people). 166This prediction of Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib (x) is with regard to the appearance of the Twelfth Imam, Abul-Qasim Muhammad ibn al-Hassan, al-Mahdi (x). 526 Part of the same sermon: As if I see (him), he (the Enjoiner of Evil)167 is shouting in Syria and is extending his banners to the outskirts of Kufa. He is bent towards it like the biting of the she-camel. He has covered the ground with heads. His mouth is wide open and (the trampling of) his footsteps on the ground have become heavy. His advance is broad and his attacks are severe. By Allah, he will disperse you throughout the earth till only a few of you remain, like kohl in the eye. You will continue like this till the Arabs return to their sense. You should, therefore, stick to established ways, clear signs and the early period which has the lasting virtues of the Prophethood. You should know that Satan makes his ways easy so that you may follow him on his heels.

#suntv #nahjulbalagha #nahjulbalaghaenglish Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib (x) collected the people and exhorted them1 to jihad but they observed a long silence. Then he said the following: “What is the matter with you. Have you lost your wits?! A group of them replied: “O Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib (x)! If you go forth we shall be with you, whereupon Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib (x) said the following: What has happened to you?! You may not be guided aright or shown the right path. Should I, under such circumstances, go forth?! In fact, at this time one of the brave and the valorous among you whom I select should go out. It does not suit me to leave the army, the city, the public treasury, the land revenue, the dispensation of justice among Muslims and looking after the demands of the claimants and to follow one contingent after the other moving here and there like featherless arrow moving in the quiver. I am the axis of the mill. It rotates on me while I remain in my status. As soon as I leave, the center of its rotation will be disturbed and its lower stone will also be disturbed. By Allah, this is very bad advice. By Allah! If I had not been hoping for martyrdom by my meeting with the enemy, and my meeting with them has been ordained, I will have secured my carrier and went away from you and will not have sought you so long as the north and South differed. There is no benefit in the majority of your numbers because of a lack of unity of your hearts. I have put you on the clear path whereon no one will perish except who perishes by himself. He who sticks to it will achieve Paradise and he who deviates goes to Hell

#suntv #nahjulbalagha #nahjulbalaghaenglish Delivered When Allegiance Was Sworn to Him at Medina The responsibility for what I say is guaranteed and I am answerable for it. He to whom experiences have clearly shown the past exemplary punishments (given by Allah to people) is prevented by piety from falling into doubts. You should know that the same troubles have returned to you which existed when the Prophet (h) was first sent. By Allah Who sent the Prophet (h) with faith and truth! You will be severely subverted, bitterly shaken s in sieving and fully mixed as by spooning in a cooking pot till your low persons become high and high ones become low, those who were behind would attain forward positions and those who were forward would become backward. By Allah, I have not concealed a single word or spoken any lie and I had been informed of this event and of this time. Beware that sins are like unruly horses on whom their riders have been placed and their reins have been let loose so that they would jump 351 with them in Hell. Beware that piety is like trained horses on whom the riders have been placed with the reins in the hands so that they would take the riders to Heaven. There is right and wrong and there are followers for each. If wrong dominates, it has (always) in the past been so and if truth goes down that too has often occurred. It seldom happens that a thing that lags behind comes forward. Ash-Sharif ar-Radi says the following by way of commenting on the above: “In the short speech, there is more beauty than can be appreciated and the quantity of amazement aroused by it is more than can be appreciated. Despite what we have stated, it has so many aspects of eloquence that cannot be expressed, nor can anyone reach its depth. And no one can understand what I am saying unless one has attained this are and known its details.” No one appreciates it except those who know (Holy Quran, 29: 43) From the Same Sermon: He who has heaven and hell in his view has no other aim. He who attempts and acts quickly succeeds, while the seeker who is slow may also entertain hope. And he who falls short of actions faces destruction in Hell. On the right and left there are misleading paths. Only the middle way if the (right) path which is the Everlasting book and the traditions of the Prophet (h). From it the Sunnah has spread out and toward it is the eventual return. He who claims (otherwise) is ruined and he who concocts falsehood is disappointed. He who opposes1 the right with his face gets destruction. It is enough ignorance for a man not to know himself. He who is strong rooted2 in piety does not get destruction and the plantation of the people based on piety never remains without water. Hide yourselves in your houses and reform yourselves. Repentance is at your back. One should praise only Allah and condemn only his own self.

#suntv #nahjulbalagha #nahjulbalaghaenglish To Abdullah Ibn Abbas after Muhammad Ibn Abu Bakr Had Been Killed Now then, Egypt has been conquered and Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr, may Allah have mercy on him, has been martyred. We seek his reward from Allah. He was a son who was a well-wisher, a hard worker, a sharp sword and a bastion of defense. I had called upon the people to join him and ordered them to reach him to help him prior to this incident. I repeatedly called upon them secretly and openly. Some of them came half-heartedly, some put up false excuses, and some sat away leaving me behind. I ask Allah, the Sublime One, to grant me an early relief from them, for by Allah, had I not been yearning to meet the enemy for the sake of martyrdom and not prepared myself for death, I would not have liked to be with these people for a single day, nor ever to face the enemy with them.

#suntv #nahjulbalagha #nahjulbalaghaenglish To Mundhir ibn Jarud al-Abdi Who, in His Administrative Charge, Had Misappropriated Certain Things: The good behavior of your father deceived me about you, and I thought that you would follow his way and tread on his path. But according to what has reached me about you, you are not giving up following your own inclinations and are not retaining any provision for the next world. You are making this world by ruining your next life and doing good to your kinsmen by cutting yourself off from religion. If what has reached me about you is correct, then the camel of your family and the strap of your shoe are better than your own self. A man with qualities like yours is not fit to close a hole in the ground, nor for performing any deed, nor for increasing his status, nor for taking him as a partner in any trust, nor for trusting him against misappropriation. Therefore, proceed to me as soon as this letter reaches you if Allah so wills.

#suntv #nahjulbalagha #nahjulbalaghaenglish To Mu`awiyah Our people (the tribesmen of Quraish) decided to kill our Prophet (h) and to uproot us. They caused us many worries, behaved with us harshly, denied us the ease of life, exposed us to fear, forced us to seek refuge in a rugged mountain and ignited for us the flames of war. Allah then gave us determination to protect His religion and defend His honor. The believers among us expected (heavenly) rewards from so doing, and the unbelievers among us gave their support because of kinship. Those who accepted Islam from among the tribesmen of Quraish were away from the distresses in which we were involved either because of a pledge that protected them or because of the tribe that would rise to support them. They were, therefore, safe from being killed. The way with the Prophet (h) was that when fighting became fierce and people began to lose ground, he would send forward members of his family and through them protect his companions from the attacks with swords and spears. In this way, `Ubaydah ibn al-Harith was killed on the Day of Badr, Hamzah (ibn `Abdul-Muttalib) on the Day of Uhud, and Ja`far (ibn Abu Talib) on the Day of Mu’tah. One more person, whom I can name if I wish, desired to seek martyrdom as they did, but their deaths approached, while his had not. How strange it is that I am being grouped with him who never had a briskness of pace like mine, nor had he, to his credit, any achievement like mine unless he claims something of which I do not know. In any case, all praise belongs to Allah. As regarding your request to hand over to you the murderers of Othman, I have contemplated over this matter and I do not find that handing them over to you or to someone else is possible for me. By my life, if you do not give up your wrong ways and disruptive deeds, you would surely know them. They would shortly be seeking you and would not give you the trouble of seeking them on land, sea, mountains or plains. But this search would be painful for you and their visit would not give you happiness. Peace be on those whoever deserves it.